| HI | HB2303 | Intro
25% | Prohibits health maintenance organizations from discriminating against certain health care providers that meet the terms and conditions for participation established by the health maintenance organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2511 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2440 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hui Ho`omana task force within the State Health Planning and Development Agency to develop a comprehensive plan to provide universal access to equitable and affordable high-quality healthcare for state residents, including defining ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2441 | Intro
25% | Bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to enforce the ban. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2450 | Intro
25% | Establishes a crisis intervention and diversion services program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "mental health emergency worker". Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2439 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement to transfer the Oahu Regional Health Care System from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2412 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to redirect persons experiencing a mental health crisis who are involved with, or at risk for involvement with, the criminal justice system to the appropriate health care system and services, including behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2452 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires the Department of Health to respond to reports about persons having sev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2438 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent nuisances that affect environmental health and public health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2807 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of Health to comprehensively and systematically map the array of child and adolescent mental health programs and services statewide. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2649 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2150 | Intro
25% | Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2156 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires physicians to perform or order test for lead poisoning in minor patients at certain intervals, and if the physician performs the test, the results to be included in the minor patient's record of immunization. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1718 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1719 | Intro
25% | Requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to report data to the Department of Health. Provides a screening exemption when parents or guardians object on religious grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1726 | Intro
25% | Standardizes medical exemptions from vaccination and immunization requirements. Allows one medical exemption form to remain valid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1962 | Intro
25% | Repeals provisions relating to the unlawful shipping of tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2160 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature that focuses on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1854 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that provides that all local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices are preempted and that existing local laws and regulations conflicting with the state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2157 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurers in the State, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover dental and vision treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1666 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to establish designated smoking areas on public sidewalks by 12/31/2024. Beginning 1/1/2025, prohibits smoking on public sidewalks unless within a designated smoking area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2147 | Intro
25% | Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer immunizations and vaccinations to children three years of age and older under state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1698 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to home births.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2024 | Intro
25% | Beginning on January 1, 2025, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1697 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to child and adolescent mental health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1694 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1695 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to homelessness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1727 | Intro
25% | Requires that student health and sexuality health education programs include discussion of fetal growth and development. Outlines specific content to be included.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1696 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to adult mental health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB440 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1083 | Intro
25% | Repeals unenforceable and ineffective provisions from chapter 328, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1308 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the department of health from requiring an applicant, operator, employee, or adult volunteer at a healthcare facility or, in the case of a healthcare facility operated in a private residence, any adult living in the home other than the clie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1275 | Intro
25% | Relating to abortions; prohibiting chemical abortion drugs for abortions as specified; providing exceptions; providing a criminal penalty for violating the prohibition on use of chemical abortion drugs for abortions; providing definitions; specifying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1167 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Emergency Response Vehicle Noise Task Force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB902 | Engross
50% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1428 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB291 | Intro
25% | Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the bir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB486 | Intro
25% | Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to develop a statewide framework for trauma-informed care and to provide other recommendations on how the State can implement best practices in tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB696 | Intro
25% | Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB693 | Intro
25% | Clarifies reimbursement for services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Clarifies that, for services furnished for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Amends subsection 329-101(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that a dispenser of a controlled substance report the filling of a controlled substance prescription and the dispensing of drug samples to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1096 | Intro
25% | Amends section 329-40, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the medical director of a methadone treatment program to conduct a medical evaluation that offers testing for Hepatitis C exposure and infection. Requires that a methadone treatment program h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1358 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to provide respite care, paid for by the State, to operators of certain care homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB81 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an outpatient mental health facility for children and adolescents living in the Ocean View region of Hawaii island, including in the communities of Ocean View, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1063 | Intro
25% | Making the nursing facility sustainability program and exemptions from the special fund assessments permanent. Make changes to strengthen the nursing facility sustainability program and other nonsubstantive changes for consistency and clarify. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB715 | Engross
50% | Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1080 | Intro
25% | Clarify the group of professionals who are prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility, and repeal the landlord exclusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB641 | Intro
25% | Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners, to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1452 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1038 | Engross
50% | Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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